Decoding the Generation Gap: Guns, Free Speech and Streaming Wars (Hour 2)

When the chips are down and democracy's back is up against the wall, two radio veterans step up to the microphone to right the wrongs, standing for truth, justice, and just because.

Hey, are they ready to go yet?

It's John and Gordy on 92.7 WMDX.

Welcome to another day, another big day.

Oh boy, things are, things are hopping in the US.

Yeah.

Happy Wednesday.

I'm not

quite sure which way to go with this one, but this is WMDX 92.7.

I'm just, you know, bumping into walls here.

There's so much going on.

So many things to discuss and, and, and, and, you know, this.

This attempt to bring down the UN,

or at

least the communications around the UN in order to attack probably the UN is a huge story.

And how they found it is a mystery to me.

I mean, with the people in charge right now, I'm shocked that this happened.

Of course, it's got to be career FBI.

I don't know.

I heard a little bit about it.

They had all

these servers set up around.

Right.

And they had like hundreds of thousands of SIM cards.

I may

be

overexaggerated.

But yeah, see, I doubled that.

You're exaggerating and you

overexaggerate.

It's an amazing story, but again, I'm shocked that the administration did anything at all.

They can't find a needle in a haystack.

They chase things they make up on their own.

I don't know, but it's great.

It's good to see something like this happen, and the idea itself is so phenomenal, so strange.

Well, anyway, well, I know that Trump made an appearance at the UN anyway, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, he made quite the splash at the UN.

Said all these countries are going to hell.

You're all going to hell.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, he

came right out and said something about stop chasing this environmental climate change thing.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

That was the most amazing part.

It

just came out.

You guys got to stop chasing this climate change.

Set it to the whole world.

We are the dunce cap Americans over here.

Just put us in a corner someplace.

Don't listen to us.

Whatever happens, that's our representative.

Thank you.

Wow.

Well, we'll get into all that in a little while here.

Just getting started on this Wednesday.

Yeah, I don't know.

There's so

much to cover.

I'm not really sure where to even begin.

Well, Jimmy Kimmel was on last night again.

Yes.

Back on his show.

Yes, he was.

Talking about that a little bit too.

Weather-wise today, it's another cool start.

Temperatures in the mid-50s.

And high today, close to 70.

Do you have your WMDX Samsung watch with you today, or did you leave it at home?

I do.

What would you like to know?

Well, I'd like to know the sunrise and the sunset.

Okay.

Because this time of year, you know, fall, it's days are getting shorter and shorter.

Well, 648.

Sunrise.

648,

okay.

Yeah.

And you're real close to almost the

same in the afternoon.

It's 651.

Sunset and what's the dew point?

Yeah, do we have the do we have

I don't

you know I'm I'm thinking that the dew point is unimportant at this point

Focus on the dew point anymore.

Are you

I'm not it's not the summer anymore So it's not a big deal for me the dew point is at 56 so it's below 60 degrees which is Healthy and a normal everyday dew point, but humidity is up there about 91% okay

A little while we're going to have Mike McCabe in with us, sub-stack author and blogger.

And of course, in our seven o'clock hour, we'll go for the green and gold once again, our contest.

So a lot of things happening a little bit later.

Yeah.

The end of the big story I heard on Marketplace on PBS was that the American economy is holding a better than they expected.

All right, so even with all the tariffs and the chaos created by the Trump administration everything seems to be moving along just fine and The big story of course is that a lot of these companies are absorbing a lot of the costs really?

Yeah

That's the

big story.

That's what they're saying.

Yeah, it's saying this the the reporter that is taking this on

For marketplace is writing that the American economy is holding up better than expected Have they been to the grocery store lately?

I mean the prices are going up.

Well, here's the

thing We have we have heard the reports and stories by other reporters that the prices are way up.

Yes on almost everything Mm-hmm in the stores I think that what what's happening now is we're getting used to high prices and they're normalizing it and that's what

That's what's taking place.

And I think the Fed is also kind of jumping on board that bandwagon.

Now, they are making dire predictions for 2026.

I get it.

You can make those dire predictions, but we're experiencing all that direness now.

So I don't know who these people are.

Maybe, you know, these wealthy executives aren't feeling the pain like we are.

But there is a big problem here.

And, you know, you also wonder, are we going to hold up?

Are the Democrats going to hold up the economy

with

the debt limit?

So are they going to hold it up?

Is that a good idea or a bad idea?

I think if the American public understands why it is being held up.

Then it's a really good idea, but if they failed to convince the American public that You know, maybe they shouldn't hold it up then we're we're doomed because and it's a simple It's a simple thing all of Republic or Democrats have to do is go out there and say that if we don't hold it up if we just let this thing go and Pay our bills and raise the debt limit then here's the thing

Healthcare prices are gonna go right through the roof

and

everybody's gonna experience experience that in 2026 They're gonna be raving mad people are gonna be losing their healthcare and the Democrats will have folded and not gain any advantage politically for standing their ground That's yeah, that's

If we, if we can convince people that their prices are going to go up and they're not going to have health care, they're not going to be able to afford it, that they're going to lose two or three hundred dollars a month for premiums, I think if we can't make that argument, I, we're just, well, yeah, we'll just stay here Gordy and promote.

pro-democracy

ideas

and speaking to the wind.

We're just flapping our gums on this show.

God.

Get ready to pack up and move to Canada.

Well, that's what I'm thinking.

I think that's the best idea.

Again, Sue St.

Marie, only seven hours away.

And you know, Ryan Walters is back in the news.

Tomorrow we're talking

to Tim

Schlecker.

I hope.

Yeah.

If all goes well, we'll have him as a guest tomorrow morning as usual.

Right.

But Ryan Walters is now, get this, promoting, putting

What?

It'll come to you.

What

sounds like what?

What's Charlie Turks?

Turning Point USA.

Oh, yeah.

He wants to put Turning Point USA chapters in every school in Oklahoma.

Ryan Walters.

Ryan Walters.

He's the superintendent of public schools in Oklahoma.

He wants Turning Point USA chapters and

every school.

Can you imagine like, you know, the Democrats having proposed, oh, let's put media matters, chapters in every school.

Yeah, I don't know.

You know, why not, right?

Sure.

Okay.

Well, we'll talk about that with Tim Slecker tomorrow, right?

Oh, yeah, yeah, that's coming up tomorrow.

Do we have another exciting edition of Would You Rather lined up there, Dominic?

All right.

Buckle up.

It's time to choose your own desert.

What?

This is what's mad.

It's time.

I heard buckle up.

There we go.

It's time to herd your ravers.

It's time to buckle up.

It's time for some would you rather.

I think a lot of people are probably very impressed with your choice of music.

You think so?

Yeah, it's not bad.

You guys were saying yesterday it was better.

This is a better band.

Yeah, I like it.

I appreciate that.

All right.

First question.

Let's just get into it.

All right.

Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or a hundred duck-sized horses?

Fight a

horse-sized duck or a hundred so what size horses?

Yes Horse-sized duck

or a

hundred huck duck sized horses Any

reference here to Howard the duck

No, no, no reference, I know.

My parents just, they hate that movie.

They hate it.

Sorry.

Everybody hated it.

Were they

amazed by the technology of Howard?

They were amazed by how bad it

was.

No, no, I thought it was really exceptional at that time.

At that time, yeah, maybe you're right.

I mean, it didn't look like, you know, Dweezel and all these other...

You know weasel the characters in the early kids shows dressed up like mascots.

Yeah,

they yeah, it wasn't I guess it wasn't that bad, right?

Well not bad.

Come

on.

It was high technology.

We got to check rotten tomato on that All right, we will okay.

Well anyway, I'd go with a hundred horse size big duck.

Yes, I would hundred

hundred

duck size horses.

Yes hundred

duck size horses Okay, let's go on to the second question here.

Would you rather I oppose?

Second question would you rather face your biggest fear or spend four nights in a landfill?

What's that?

Four nights in a landfill.

Would you rather face your biggest fear or four nights in a landfill?

I would do fear.

I mean the fear would only happen for a couple minutes and then four nights in a landfill.

No one's ever gonna know my biggest fear

though.

Well, my biggest

fear... Were you smoking weed when you come up with these questions?

You either gotta smoke more weed or don't smoke it at all.

It's getting worse and worse and worse.

I guess... Okay, what's the choice again?

Biggest fear or what?

Four nights in a landfill.

Four nights in a landfill.

I'll go with that.

I think... Four nights in a landfill.

I'd do biggest fear.

Yeah, I would do.

Really?

I'd do that too.

Biggest fear?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Landfill is

scary.

Now, I don't know what my biggest fear is and I think that constantly changes as

as

I As I peruse the news Things change constantly.

What is my biggest fear?

Yeah, what is the biggest fear?

I don't know.

I think falling out of a plane is kind of you know Or being in a plane and having it

I still, my childhood fears of sinking in quicksand

and

falling into an alligator pit has always

been my biggest fear.

Not a lot of alligator pits in Wisconsin that I know of, but maybe up north somewhere.

We watched a lot of Jungle Jim at the time and Tarzan.

There was a lot of quicksand in the old days.

Yes, there was.

Everywhere.

It seemed like it didn't leave it to Beaver have a quicksand episode.

I wonder.

I think so.

I think so, yeah.

OK.

Hey, we're just getting going on this Wednesday morning.

Happy to have you along with us.

It's John Peterson and Gordy Young, along with, boy, you know you're in trouble when you can't pronounce your own name.

You got it.

You're really tired.

I'm sure you get used to saying your name.

Yes, eventually.

And Dominic Lee is in the air chair, flipping the buttons and pushing the switches, doing what he does, coming right back with more of John and Gordy in the Morning on WMDX.

Okay, this is a very special edition which I forgot to mention because we were talking about so many

Okay, I was talking about so many other things.

I'm all over there.

I really am bumping off of walls at this point.

Um, but we have a very special edition this morning.

Do

we?

Yes.

We survived another rapture edition of the John and Gordy in the morning show.

Another rapture.

Yes.

Another

one.

I mean, every,

every

once in a while, um, whoever it is that calls for these things, uh, and says that we're.

going to experience the rapture, they're always wrong and it always seems, well, here, let me just get to the headline from the Washington Post on this, okay?

All right.

This is, if you're reading this, the rapture probably didn't happen again in parentheses.

And this is the sub headline, rapture talk has taken over the internet.

as influencers prepare for the world to end Tuesday.

We missed that.

Or Wednesday at the latest.

So, yeah, it's not over yet, folks.

They've been calling for the end of the world forever.

I

don't get it.

They always do, and they always will.

And this, for some reason, they keep.

disproving their religion.

Well, whoever

they are, whoever

they are that wants to convince us that there is that day coming and it's here.

And so many times they've called for it before.

This is the biblical Armageddon that they can't wait for.

It's like the sky is falling.

Maybe it's a better option than, you know, having Trump as a president.

I don't know.

But anyway, that's that's the story.

We survived another one.

Hopefully, you know, today is like the latest That could happen.

Well, maybe they put it off for a reason.

I well, maybe they couldn't get all the chairs in place in heaven I

don't I don't know.

I don't know.

We'll keep you posted if there's any breaking news on the rapture It will keep our eyes to the skies.

Don't look up.

Yeah, I love that movie

I've seen it, I think, three times now.

The thing, right?

The thing?

No, I'm talking about, don't look up.

Oh, okay, yeah, don't look up,

yeah.

But

the thing, at the

end of the movie, the guy says, look up, look up to the skies, blah, blah, blah.

Something like that anyway.

Matt in Middleton says, once again, Trump is projecting.

uh, saying other countries are going to, are going to hell as he destroys America and his policies are making us the third world country that we are.

We are fitting the definition nicely.

Um, it truly was an embarrassing moment, you know, asking the rest of the world to, you know, get off this climate change thing.

I had to get up and walk around after I saw it.

It's funny.

I don't even have that clip.

but you know it was just

it

was just so short and fine it and just you know said it like it was I

you know it's one

of those times when you're a little kid and you hear something really stupid you want to hide your face you hide your face oh my god i got a nice face that's what i did

Well, he didn't I you know, I just he can't he's getting to the point where he can't riff anymore and make any kind of sense

at all

Yeah, I mean you don't know where he's going.

You don't know understand anything that he's really going for exactly and that's I think there were a lot of there was a lot of laughter at the UN Especially when the prompter wasn't was it there that the proper was I don't know but I know it's somewhere else the elevators

Oh, the escalator just.

Oh, yeah, the escalators.

As soon as he got on, it just stopped.

Well, that's because of the people with him went up the elevator or the escalator first and hit the off button.

As I don't know, I think it was a joke or something like that.

Really?

Yeah.

So he, he doesn't know these things.

He never does know any of this stuff.

What's going on around him.

And so he went out on the floor at the union and said,

you know, idiotic things and didn't realize it was his own staff that sabotaged the escalator.

So.

Oh my.

Well, yeah, we'll get to that.

We'll get to that from Jesse Waters in just a few moments, his comments on it.

Hey, want to check out the WMDXRadio.com website here and the poll numbers are, you know, this is.

Uh, the question, are you planning to cut the cable to protest networks bowing to the Trump administration?

Well, now that Jimmy Kimmel's back, I don't know.

People are back on Disney and Hulu and all that.

They're saying, well, if you overreacted.

Yeah.

Come on back.

No, no,

we're

sending the message.

We gotta, I gotta send the message.

I

haven't done it yet, but

I'm

planning on doing it.

It's very difficult to do this necessarily because I need the stuff for the show.

I need that research.

Well, the, uh, the question was, you know,

planning to cut the cable to protest the networks bound to the Trump administration.

Yes, is the leading answer.

68% say yes, but I'm still using streaming services.

And then 25% are saying no, hurts too many people working at the networks who have nothing to do with the company decisions.

So that's that.

You can go to wmdxradio.com and participate in the poll and see what else is going on in our world.

Probably I'll probably talk about it more, but I think that I think the networks

have to rethink what they're doing.

What

do you

mean?

Because if people do cut that cord, right, they won't get the TV stations.

And that means that the networks won't have the viewership and advertisers support.

So what do they do?

If they continue to stay as one unit and have their own streaming services and people cut the cord,

they're cut off.

They should think of an alternative because this is probably going to happen again and again and again.

And

I

think they should think of alternative ways to get their audience or keep their audience without having a one specific network that can get cut off if people do cut the cord.

29 past the hour, we're coming back with Idiocracy next on John and Gordy in the Morning, WMDX.

It's the end of the world as we know it It's the end of the world as we know it

As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point, a dumbing down.

With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most and left the intelligent to become an endangered species.

What an idiot!

Oh, what a loser!

Now listen, Grapehead.

I'll explain it so even you can understand it.

Idiocracy!

For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.

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This is from Mark, Minnesota Madness, Illinois Insanity.

How about Tom Tiffany's toxicity?

And you know, really?

Yeah.

Uh, Tom Piffney is throwing his hand in the ring for governor.

Oh, I must have missed that.

I missed that announcement.

Yeah, just have one.

No one cares about Tom.

Oh, we'll see what happens though.

I mean, this guy is, is, is the one guy who completely destroyed Wisconsin's environment.

You know, he did everything he could to get the mining industry.

Every right in the world to destroy.

Everything in Wisconsin, you know, put up put up their minds next to grade schools.

So all that dust and And of course, you know prevent cities from getting reimbursed from mining

because of these giant trucks going through their towns and destroying their roads.

Well, he said, they're not going to get any reimbursement for that.

You know, I can't understand Tom Tiffany getting elected into Congress.

It just still freaks me out a little bit.

As you can tell, I'm a little traumatized.

OK.

This morning's been a very busy morning for me.

I had to

look

for some Jimmy Kimmel comments

from the show when he was

back on last night at work.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I did find one.

And if you could queue up 185, this is his opening statement, which by the way, I am I'm very disappointed in and I just think it's it's too much too over the top for me.

Let's

listen.

I posted a message on Instagram on the day he was killed sending love to his family and asking for compassion and I meant it.

I still do.

Nor was it my intention to blame any specific group for the actions of what it was obviously a deeply disturbed individual.

That was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make.

But I understand that to some that felt either ill timed or unclear or maybe both.

And for those who think I did.

point a finger.

I get why you're upset.

If the situation was reversed, there's a good chance I'd have felt the same way.

I have many friends and family members on the other side who I love and remain close to, even though we don't agree on politics at all.

I don't think the murderer who shot Charlie Kirk represents anyone.

This was a sick person who believed violence was a solution and it isn't.

It ever.

And also, selfishly,

I am a person who gets a lot of threats.

I get many ugly and scary threats against my life, my wife, my kids, my coworkers, because of what I choose to say.

And I know those threats don't come from the kind of people on the right who I know and love.

So that's what I wanted to say on that subject.

But I don't want to make this about me.

And I know this is what people say when they make things about them.

But I really don't.

This show.

This show is not important.

What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.

There you go.

Okay.

So what did you think?

I thought that was perfect.

What did you think that was not good with it?

I think

it was too apologetic.

Really?

Yeah.

I don't think he needed to make an apology.

I don't think anything he said was wrong.

I don't think he

I think the reinterpretation of what he said was very wrong and we we got to stop pulling back, you know This this acquiescence to pressure is driving me crazy on the left Please stop doing this Now what he said was was good.

It was good.

There's nothing wrong with it except it was it was too forgiving and

Every time we make a comment about Charlie Kirk now, we have to apologize and say, you know, we really don't like it when people get killed and shot for what they're saying.

We always have to qualify it.

Stop qualifying it.

Let's move on.

Let's talk about the actual issue.

Anyway, it was just a little bit too much over the top for me, but very emotional.

Right off a bad emotion,

which was amazing.

Let's go to the phones.

Charles is on the line from Milwaukee.

Good morning, Charles.

Go

ahead.

Hey, good morning, guy.

I am right there with you.

I thought it was over the top.

Um, why are you apologizing?

You said, he said nothing wrong.

Right.

He, he, he, there was nothing that he said.

I don't care what anybody said.

I don't care what any, any Democrat or liberal person says, um, um,

Jimmy Kimmel said nothing wrong.

He said nothing about Charlie Kirk.

And at the end of the day, murder is murder.

Someone dying is because of something that they may have said is wrong.

But at the end of the day, Charlie Kirk was nobody except for a podcaster.

I feel sorry for his kids.

His kids won't be there to see him grow, but that's no different than the man last night.

down the street from me.

Not, I'm not just, I'm just saying something that was probably killed.

That has kids that will not see their dad or their mom or their uncle or their brother.

He was nobody except for a podcast with a spirit hate.

But yes, I believe Jimmy Kimmel was, I'm glad to see him back on the air, but I thought he was over the top.

So there needs to be an apologizing needs to come from the right.

that right away they started saying that there was a left lunatic and the Democrats and all of their rhetoric and everything that they say was horrible, they got this man killed.

Democrats didn't say anything they got this man killed.

All the horrible rhetoric comes from the right and they're good at being able to make it seem like Democrats are the ones that are spewing hate.

They don't want hate coming from the Democratic side and it burns me up when they say that and there's no pushback.

Well, it bothers me an awful lot too because the right wing the magus did come out very strongly and say this was somebody on the left and We always qualified it.

We did it on this show.

We qualified it We had a few pieces of information We could assume that he was a gamer and that this is a gaming culture and we mentioned that and that is Is something that is very important in this discussion because it's a new

kind of assassin.

It's a new kind of reason to go out there and act like this.

But, you know, it really is something that they did and they didn't have to apologize for jumping to the, jumping to the conclusion that they were on the left.

They never have to apologize now.

They won that one.

And, and, and that's what bothers me on that as well, Charles.

I appreciate it.

Okay.

We got to get to CJ here.

What do you got for a CJ?

Good morning gentlemen.

Hi

for taking

my car

sure

Well on the how about the president kicking ass at the UN make

sure it didn't yeah, that was he was there was the most amazing most of

embarrassing thing I have ever seen but what the hell you

know I thought it was awesome just like 18 resolutions for George W. Bush before he took on Saddam

yeah

18 resolutions wasn't enough for Saddam Hussein but as far as Jimmy Kimmel goes um you know his apology um that he didn't mean to say it

Yeah, he did.

It was on the teleprompter.

He did mean to say it.

And it wasn't anybody from the right pointing out that it was potentially a person, an extremist on the left.

It was only the governor of Utah and the FBI and law enforcement.

And his own family said he has gone extreme left.

No,

that's not

true.

That's not true.

The family never said that.

And by the way, the governor, I thought the governor was completely out of line.

So many times they gave him credit for being so middle of the road.

Not in my opinion.

He came right out and accused this assassin of being on the left.

I did.

This is all incorrect.

We couldn't jump.

We still can't jump.

We

still can't jump to any conclusions because we still don't know.

Okay.

We have all this evidence that he was part of the gaming community.

We have all that evidence

like he knows who you don't know.

And

by the way, Kimmel, let's get back to

Kimmel.

That's not true.

All of that is not true.

But I'm not going to get into the details of all of that right now.

We're talking about Kimmel and what he said and what he originally said.

He accused no one.

He accused no

one.

You know, he didn't accuse the killer of being on the right or a mega.

He was, he was saying that the people.

You guys need to read the quote.

He was saying

the people on the

right, the people on the right were trying to switch the cause or the reason why the shooter shot Kirk was because he was on the left.

I mean, they were, he said they're trying to switch.

Read the quote

guys.

Come on.

Now you're, you're dancing.

You're trying to dance.

I'm not going to read the quote.

We know what he said.

And he was saying that the right wing was trying to blame the left.

Bottom line.

I know he didn't he said that it was a mega and they're exactly they got

no Wow, I don't know what universe

come on you guys

You've got a different smarter than that.

You've got a different network than most of us

The networks aren't even there in his show.

Well, I know you know, okay, I want to get into

that I

know I want to get into that is fair if that's a really important issue for me right now And I want to actually jump into thank you CJ for opening that avenue up for me

Because now Sinclair and Nextar, they're not going to run Kimmel.

That's going to go real well for the viewership in those areas.

Wow.

All right.

You deal with the feedback on that.

But here's the thing.

These guys, they want to make a purchase and they want to own more TV stations and they want to own more TV stations than the

regulations allow and they would have like a 60 or 70% coverage in the United States.

Think about it.

These guys are making decisions for what you and I can see and hear.

And they think they're right.

They have that kind of power to do that and they want more power.

They want to cover 60, 70, 80% of the country in what they can see or what they can't see.

So I think they made the best argument for not giving them that power.

All right,

we will

continue.

Well, the FCC is still holding up that deal, that new max deal, right?

Yes, I believe so.

So we will continue with more of John and Gordy in the morning on WMDX after this.

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Yeah.

All right.

Well, let's get into that discussion a little bit here because, you know, I think Sinclair and Nexstar have proven that they can't handle too much coverage in this country by preempting Jimmy Kimmel.

They're censoring him.

They're silencing him.

Another opinion.

And they think they know better.

protecting their viewers from another opinion is what they're

essentially doing, right?

Well, and they want to please the Trump administration because the Trump administration is holding up the big $6 billion deal between Nexstar and Tegna.

Tegna used to be Gantt-Gannett television stations,

USA Today.

They'd own a lot.

They've got a ton of stations.

They would certainly have great coverage and they could preempt any program they want and control what the networks are sending out there.

And it just proves that the FCC, by the way, the FCC cannot censor.

They don't have any control of doing that.

They're kind of a watchdog about the

forbidden words or monopolies, but other than that they don't have the kind of teeth and Congress has to approve this next-star purchase because they have to raise the limit.

of coverage that these TV stations are allowed.

They can't cover the entire U.S.

and then decide whatever they want to decide by taking Kimmel off the air or whatever program they dislike or is against their religion or against their politics.

That's the point.

Did you get my email?

the cut that I'd like to play, let's play the original track from Kimmel, what he actually said.

Let's play that again.

We can, with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and everything they can to

score

political points from it.

That's

it right there.

I mean, that's what he said.

And they objected to that.

They made it seem like, no, no, that guy was on the right.

No.

No.

And then they went completely overboard.

The Megas went completely overboard.

They flooded X. I mean, I was looking at X and it was just back to back accusations and Kimmel should be taken off, maybe even shot.

This is the kind of reaction they had.

They knew the door was open and they rushed through it and they just flooded social media and it was really pronounced.

Yeah, you know, I'm reading the transcript as you're playing it there.

And it's exactly what we said, you know, he said, quote, we hit some new lows over the weekend with the mega gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything, everything they can to score political points from it.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, that was it.

Make really complained about that.

Yeah.

So.

And they had no reason to one person a Bob, you know kind of walk.

Hi Bob get him getting my charger put in

Just to keep you updated on my EV charging station my

space car.

Yeah Anyway, he wrote oh my god

What planet is CJ on?

CJ has got to watch something other than Newsmax.

That's from

Scott.

Catherine is on the line here this morning with a question or a comment.

Go ahead, Catherine.

You're a question or a comment boy.

Like I'd ask John

anything.

Concerned.

You know, CJ called in this morning already and

his interpretation of the same words.

We all heard the same words.

Isn't that interesting?

What he said is not an issue.

What he meant by it is, and what you might consider acknowledging is that it's possible to reinterpret what he said.

What Jimmy Kimmel said was, they're distancing them, trying to make it out

that he is anybody but their own.

Words to that effect, right?

And I want to get the words right.

I mean, be anything but their own.

Meaning, not that he is something else, but that he's not ours for sure.

Right?

That's what Jimmy Kimmel was trying to say, was that the Republicans are saying he's not ours.

And that's fair.

They were saying that.

They were saying he's a liberal.

So Jimmy Kimmel's not saying,

He's a Republican, this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk.

He was trying to say that the Republicans are trying to say what he was.

Exactly.

Exactly.

And I read this more often than not.

He wasn't anything.

He raised Republican, raised very conservative, religious, right?

Republicans probably, but he can't even make that gauge.

But I don't know.

I just, it's interpretation, interpretation, interpretation takes the better interpretation.

try for a gentler interpretation and stop threatening people.

Yes, exactly.

And, you know, his parents, by the way, thought that maybe because of his relationship with his boyfriend-girlfriend, that made him more left.

That

was

their reference to it.

It wasn't that he turned into a left-wing crazy.

All right.

Thank you, Catherine.

Thank you.

Appreciate that.

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Yeah this morning something I woke up today, and I was like this is not gonna be good You're not feverish are you?

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That would really be a big help.

I think yeah It's hard to talk with the masks on you know if you're on the radio

It's difficult.

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Over to you, John Peterson.

Well, you know, we're talking about, uh, uh, Jimmy Kimmel returning, um, the complaint now is that he didn't say, I'm sorry.

Somebody help me please.

This is going to fill the media for the next three days.

Can we just move on?

So I don't know if you heard this earlier this morning, but I brought up that Superintendent of Public Schools in Oklahoma

wants

to put turning point USA in every public school in the state So there you go In Oklahoma any complaints any any complaints from mega out there, please give us a call and tell us that you disagree with something like that

Oh, and I'm looking at a story about Derek Van Orden.

What's he up to?

He is a proposal where if anybody complains about Charlie Kirk or is criticizing Charlie Kirk, they will prompt him to

pull funding from their district or their business or their school, wherever it is, that person works.

That funding, if they were getting federal funding, is withdrawn.

He will starve the death out of those communities because if anybody uses that First Amendment right of free speech, he is going to penalize and punish them.

That's what the Republicans do.

It's all punishment and penalize.

You know, and he, he's specifically talking about a school teacher who got very upset, you know, and she spoke her onions on social media.

And, uh, it's Krista Lasecki.

And she said this, um, uh, black, uh, why were so many people glossing over his comments, questioning whether black.

Pilots were qualified and saying some gun deaths were worth accepting in exchange for the second second amendment rights She posted this on Facebook The post saying that Kirk spewed hate and that those who agreed with his views on guns can't be upset that he died now he did say People dying.

That's the price of the second amendment.

He did yes.

He did say that I think that should

be the first line in all the arguments against guns first and the fact that no one deserves to be shot obviously and see I'm doing the oldest qualifier but you know the thing is that he eventually you know was one of those people that we had to sacrifice to keep our second amendment rights and that's never a good thing.

It's not a good thing to say that first and then you know becoming a victim himself is the irony of it.

And it's all uncalled for.

If we could just do something about guns in this country, and the Republicans, the Megas, refuse to solve any of this.

Now they're obviously very upset about Charlie Kirk's death, and everybody is.

But the other thing is, we don't get upset about mass shootings in public schools where children are killed, 20.

We don't get real upset about that.

We don't worry about the family and how they're going to accept that or brothers and sisters are going to miss their brother or sister.

We don't talk about that.

We talk about a pundit.

We talk about a politician, a person who has a podcast.

We put them above everybody else.

That's the upsetting thing for me.

That's what I don't understand.

I don't get it.

Everybody's life is worth it.

Just one life is worth it.

If we could just save that person, that one person, seriously, why can't we do it?

We should be able to do it in this country.

That's what's upsetting for me, and I think this teacher who spoke her onions, got this out of her system, nothing wrong with that.

She has every right to say that, and it's not horrific either.

It wasn't put in a horrific way.

So, thank you.

Derek Van Orden for punishing us for speaking our First Amendment rights.

We know where you're coming from because you've got a president who wants to be a dictator.

Got it.

Yeah, it doesn't seem to move the markers on where we get with gun legislation at all.

No.

I mean, just people, we can't seem to come to any kind of movement

on that.

And you would think even this.

Would be something you think the Megas would say well, you know, maybe we got to do something about God something.

Yeah, right Well, that's a well, you know, that was illegal gun We wouldn't have

stopped that from happening, right?

Yeah, okay Phone lines are open now if you want to jump in six oh eight eight seven nine eight two five five And you can always text us on the civic media app.

I think we've got a interesting text

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Let's see.

Doug.

Scroll through

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Text to win.

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Can't find

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You want me to say it?

Oh, we got it.

Doug from St.

Francis said, Trump has ordered the FBI to form a special escalator fast reaction task force that can mobilize.

Instantly, to address escalator challenges across this great nation, people want dependable floor-to-floor capability.

Yeah.

Now, there's something I think we can all come together

on.

Thank you, Doug.

I think the first step was obviously to ban malts, not build them anymore.

That was the first step.

Special escalator fast reaction task force.

I love that.

Well, thanks, Doug.

Being on top of that, follow it.

All right.

Keep us updated.

All right.

Let's get to some of the treatments for autism.

Trump's FDA is approving a supplement.

It's an extreme version of a vitamin, and it is meant to help those with autism, a certain kind of autism, and it should improve

Their their ability to communicate.

Yes.

It says here the Trump FDA issued an official notice saying that it was approving the tablet from Le Corvin a Fallenic acid supplement as a treatment for autism Le Cor, Le Cor, Le Cor, Lecavorin, that's what Lecavorin is a form of vitamin B used in the 1950s.

Of course, that's where

rfk jr is getting all this information from the

1950s

the director of the university of chicago medicine uh neurodevelopmental clinic warned the supplement

should not be given universally and is not a cure, but it has the possibility of helping.

Ungoing clinical trials have shown it may help children with autism who struggle with communication.

Kennedy touted it as an exciting therapy that may benefit large numbers of children.

Nope, don't give it to large numbers of children, they're saying.

The research is still in its early stages explaining there's still

at the 10 yard line in regards to this, but if it helps, it'll help a little and I think that's, that's enough.

And I'm sure that, you know, people that have this particular kind of autism have already been informed of this kind of treatment anyway, but it's out there now and they made a big deal about it.

Okay.

Got it.

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All right.

Now, Ron Johnson chimed in, he's still on the...

Ivermectin, bad wagon.

God, what is with this guy?

Let's play cut 176 for everybody.

Let me just give you some facts.

So

we've all heard of Bayers, the vaccine adverse event reporting system.

Well, the FDA has Bayers, the FDA adverse event reporting system.

So in 56 years of tracking Tylenol, there have been 39,540 deaths reported to Bayers.

Wow.

That's 706 per year.

That's amazing.

For ivermectin, you remember the one that they said was so dangerous?

Oh, yeah.

In 29 years reporting 493 deaths, 17 a year.

Wow, that's

amazing.

And of course, for the COVID injection in over just five years, 38,742 deaths associated with COVID injection, that's over 8000 per year.

But wait for it.

Those are just the facts.

I know VAERS and VAERS, it doesn't prove causation.

It doesn't prove causation.

But it should be causing physicians and federal health officials

to ask the questions.

And God bless President Trump and RFK Jr.

for asking the questions and starting to use their positions, their platform, to give parents informed consent.

So there you go.

Thing is, people don't usually take ivermectum to kill parasites in their bodies.

So not a lot of people use ivermectum.

So the death rate is very low for that, for humans.

Animals, not people.

The reason such a low death count is, of course, they don't take those pills.

And by the way, causation.

There's no correlation there.

The deaths aren't really correlated with what I'm talking about, but you can take

The numbers for what they are just numbers that I'm spewing forth Mindlessly as I always do that's Ron Johnson for you boy.

Why do we pay this guy?

He beat Russ

Feingold of all people.

I still can't get over that.

I

know it.

Place.

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